{"id":53,"date":"2014-05-18T14:30:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T18:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/?p=53"},"modified":"2014-05-21T19:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T23:47:29","slug":"25-ways-to-use-magnetic-letters-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/2014\/05\/18\/25-ways-to-use-magnetic-letters-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"25 ways to Use Magnetic Letters at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.\u00a0 LETTER PLAY:\u00a0<\/strong> Encourage children to play with the magnetic letters on the refrigerator or on a table.\u00a0 Playing with letters allows children to learn more about how they look.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 MAKING NAMES:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0A child’s name is the most important word.\u00a0 Have children make their names several times, mixing up the letters, making, making their names, and checking them with their\u00a0 names on a card.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 LETTER MATCH:<\/strong>\u00a0 Invite children to find other letters that look exactly the same as a letter in their name (for example, place an “m” on the refrigerator and have the child find all the letters that look like it).\u00a0 They don’t need to know the letter name.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 NAME GAME:\u00a0<\/strong> Have children make names of friends or family.\u00a0 Have them make the name, mix the letters, and make the names several times.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 MAKING WORDS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Make a simple word like mom,<\/em> dad\u00a0<\/em>or sun and have your child make the same word by matching each letter below the model (sun–s-u-n).<\/em><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 ALPHABET TRAIN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Have your child put the lower case magnetic letter in the order of the alphabet.\u00a0 Then they can point to them and sing the alphabet song.\u00a0 Have them repeat the process with uppercase letters.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 CONSONANT\/VOWEL SORT:\u00a0<\/strong> Have children sort the consonant letters and the vowel letters.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 FEATURE SORT:\u00a0<\/strong> Have children sort letters in a variety of ways-for example, letters with long sticks and letters with short sticks, letters with circles and letters with no circles, letters with tunnels and letters with dots, letters with slanted sticks, and letters with straight sticks.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 COLOR SORT:<\/strong>\u00a0 Have children sort all the red, blue, green, yellow letters.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 UPPERCASE\/LOWERCASE MATCH:<\/strong>\u00a0 Have children match the uppercase letters with the lowercase form.<\/p>\n

11. \u00a0WRITING LETTERS:<\/strong> \u00a0Have children select ten different letters and write each letter on a paper. \u00a0They can use the magnetic letter as a model.<\/p>\n

12. \u00a0WRITING WORDS:<\/strong> \u00a0Have children make five simple words (such as dog, fun, big, hat, like, sit) and then write them on a sheet of paper.<\/p>\n

13. \u00a0MAKING FOOD WORDS:<\/strong> \u00a0Make some words that identify food-for example, bun<\/em>, corn, rice.<\/em> \u00a0Have children draw pictures of each, mix the letters, and make the words again.<\/p>\n

14. \u00a0MAKING COLOR WORDS:<\/strong> \u00a0Give children a list of color words with an item made in that color as a picture support (for example, a red<\/em> ball). \u00a0Have children made the color word with magnetic letters using the model, mix the letters, and make it again several times.<\/p>\n

15. \u00a0LETTER NAMES: \u00a0<\/strong>Specify a color and have children take one colored letter at a time and say the letter name.<\/p>\n

16. \u00a0MAKING NUMBER WORDS:<\/strong> \u00a0Give children a list of numerals with the number word next to each. \u00a0 \u00a0Have children make the word and mix the letters two or three times.<\/p>\n

17. \u00a0MAGAZINE MATCH:<\/strong> \u00a0Look through a magazine or newspaper with children, cutting out some large-print simple words (such as man, box, boy<\/em>). \u00a0Glue them on a sheet of paper with plenty of space below each. \u00a0Have children make each word below the printed one.<\/p>\n

18. \u00a0FIND THE LETTER:<\/strong> \u00a0Make a set of alphabet letters, upper-or lowercase, on a set of index cards. \u00a0Shuffle the “deck” and take turns drawing a card and finding the magnetic letter that corresponds to it.<\/p>\n

19. \u00a0LETTER N THE CIRCLE: \u00a0<\/strong>Draw two circles and place and h<\/em> in one and an o<\/em> in the other. \u00a0Have children put letters in the h<\/em> circle and say how they are like the h.<\/em> \u00a0Do the same with o<\/em>. \u00a0This activity will help children learn to look at features of letters. Vary the letters in the circles; accept their explanations about what they are noticing.<\/p>\n

20. \u00a0CHANGE THE WORD:<\/strong> \u00a0Build several simple words and show the children how to change, add, or take away a letter to make a new words. \u00a0Examples\u00a0are: me, he, we; me,<\/em> my; at, hat, sat.<\/em> \u00a0After the demonstration put the needed letters in a special place in an empty container for them to practice.<\/p>\n

21. \u00a0ALPHABET SEQUENCE:<\/strong> \u00a0Place the letter a<\/em> on the table and have the child find the next letter (b<\/em>) and put it next to it. \u00a0Place the letter c<\/em> next to the b<\/em> and have the child look for the n ext letter (d<\/em>). \u00a0Continue through the alphabet with lowercase letters. \u00a0Repeat with uppercase letters.<\/p>\n

22. \u00a0LETTER SORT:<\/strong> \u00a0Place a pile of magnetic letters on the table for the child to spread out. \u00a0Have the child put all letters that are the same together in a pile. \u00a0Then if appropriate, have the child five the letter name for each pile.<\/p>\n

23. \u00a0LETTER CHAINS:<\/strong> \u00a0Make a five-letter chain (for example, pfrmo)<\/em>. \u00a0Have children find the same letters and make the same chain below your model. \u00a0Then have the children make a chain that you copy.<\/p>\n

24. \u00a0LETTER BINGO:<\/strong> \u00a0Make two cards with a grid of three boxes across and three down. Trace one lowercase letter in each box. \u00a0Put \u00a0pile of magnetic letters that are representing the letters on the cards and some that are not in a plastic bowl. \u00a0Play a Letter Bingo game. Take turns taking a letter, saying its name, and then placing the letter in the box if there is a match. \u00a0If there is not match, put the letter back in the bowl. \u00a0The first to fill three boxes across, down, or diagonally says, “Bingo” and wins the game. \u00a0Play the same game with uppercase letters.<\/p>\n

25. \u00a0RHYMING PAIRS:<\/strong> \u00a0Use a magnetic cookie sheet. \u00a0Make a simple three letter word such as dog, bug, at, fan,can, hot, man, net, pan, rat, sit. \u00a0Say the word and then say a second word that rhymes (dog-log, bug-mug, cat-fat, fan-man<\/em>). \u00a0Ask the child to make the rhyming word below each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1.\u00a0 LETTER PLAY:\u00a0 Encourage children to play with the magnetic letters on the refrigerator or on a table.\u00a0 Playing with letters allows children to learn more about how they look. 2.\u00a0 MAKING NAMES:\u00a0\u00a0A child’s name is the most important word.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-class-news","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bruscoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}